Welcome back, fellow artists and art lovers! I hope this one's helpful for those of you who are looking to develop your art skills further or who are just curious about sketchbooks and their importance. If you have any questions leave them below and I'll do my best to get back to you. For immediate access to my sketching and watercolor real-time tutorials, classes and workshops on Art Fundamentals (Color Theory, Composition, Form, Perspective, etc.) monthly livestreams and much more: patreon.com/erika_lancaster_artist🎉
Inspirational! Thanks for your comments about real sketching in an everyday sketchbook. I think we all feel the need for “permission” to not be “perfect”and the encouragement just to keep drawing. You did both both splendidly today!
Thanks so much for watching! I'm so happy to hear this one was helpful. 🙌 I struggled with this a lot in the beginning of my journey. Nowadays remembering that life is short and that every day that I get to wake up and live life is a gift, helps me put everything back in perspective. There's no need to take ourselves, or our art too seriously to the point that it stops being enjoyable. 🙂🙌
It's been SO long since I've watched your videos! I have been hesitant to get back info sketching and painting because of other priorities that needed to come first. Thank you, Erika, for this video. I need to buy a sketchbook now and get started.
Hi Erika, I always appreciate your advice and loved your comment that it’s better to work on several small pieces and also I smiled looking at your large pile of sketch books. I have been using sketchbooks for a while now and after watching this I am glad to see that I’m on the right track. I also found two older books from when I first started and was happy to see that I have made progress. Thanks so much.
Hi, there! 🙌 hahah yeah! I have so many sketchbooks and most of them are all filled up in that pile I showed. Whenever I want to progress my skills with anything, I turn to my sketchbooks and fill up pages. A few of them are full of pages and pages of hands and figures, and I attribute my progress to this kind of practice. ✏️ I'm so happy to hear that you use sketchbooks, too. Keep going and enjoy your practice! Thanks so much for watching.
Can anyone recommend a favorite sketchbook for graphite? Also, were those pencils used at the end of the video watercolor pencils or regular colored pencils?
Hey, there! I used watercolor and regular colored pencils (Prismacolor) for this sketchbook spread. 🙂 I love drawing sketchbooks from Strathmore and Canson. I've left a couple of links to two of the ones I buy most from Amazon in the description box. 😉 Thanks for watching!
Hello! I am a new content creator and stumbled on a post saying you have been consistently uploading for 7 years. I was curious if your analytics say your content is getting many impressions? I am curious if you changes the Wording of your Titles if it would help (I am a NOOB myself). How is your impression click through rate?
Hi! Yes, I started here on RU-vid in 2017 and have been super consistent, sharing at least one video a week since then. It's been a super slow slog for me, and literally making peanuts still. 😅 This said, it's thanks to RU-vid that I've been able to grow my Patreon membership, as well as make my website easier to find on Google, which continues to bring in students and clients. Been paying for TubeBuddy for a while, too, making sure that the videos I create are topics viewers are looking for, and making sure that I use TubeBuddy to optimize titles, tags, etc. I know my first videos were terrible, though. Worked with the resources I had at the time, and work on improving as time goes by. I'm terrible at checking my analytics. I'm so busy with a ton of other stuff that I don't have much time to go in and check on that kind of stuff. Wouldn't even know how to find those specific numbers, tbh. 😅
